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Why would anyone want to pedal hundreds of miles without travelling a single millimetre in distance? Raising money for a cause like Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research is the perfect reason. It's the motivation which spurred us on at any rate, when pedalling furiously on static bike trainers in Kingston's busy Bentall Centre.

We are very grateful to have raised just under £250 from passing shoppers - many of whom had their own tales to tell of how blood cancer had touched their lives in some way. A Chinese lady stopped with her family to tell us that back in her home village she would have been told by the doctors merely to go home after being diagnosed with leukaemia. Instead, she lives in the UK and had received a bone marrow transplant which appears to have been successful.

Another group were keen to talk. Yaser explained how his daughter Margot had died at a very young age from blood cancer despite getting a bone marrow transplant. Yaser becam…

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If you thought riding from London to Paris
was an energy-sapping slog, try getting permission to set up a turbo trainer in
a shop, public street or local gym for the purposes of fund-raising…

Of course, lots of you have. And ‘chapeau’ if you’ve had more luck than
me - so far at least. “Just putting you on hold, sir.” Cue banal
lift music – apparently forever. “Just putting you through to the relevant
council department, sir.” Cue recorded options’ message, “Welcome to Kingston
upon Thames, Children’s Services…” “Please can you first send us an email,
sir.” Cue fruitless wait for a reply – lasting weeks and weeks! “You sent us an
email when? I don’t have a record of that – could you send us another one
please, sir?” Cue losing the will to go on – almost.

“You sent an email to the address on our
website?” Cue thought bubble, ‘Yep, and
that was…